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Oral surgery waiting times at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

At the end of August 2026, 2,222 people were on the Oral surgery at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust waiting list and about 3 in 10 people (33%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust · NHS trust · Oral surgery across England

People waiting
2,222
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
32.8%
England: 53.8%
Over 52 weeks
45
Median wait
26 wks
Published median for this list

45 people (2.0%, roughly 1 in 50) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 21 percentage points behind the England figure for this service.

Why this page exists

This page combines facts that neither the organisation page nor the England specialty page shows on its own: the current published figure for this one service at this one organisation; how that figure has moved over the months we hold; the England figure for the same service in the same month; other NHS trusts within 25 miles reporting the same service; the published median wait and 52-week count for this list; the other services this organisation reports. This service accounts for 2.6% of everyone waiting at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

Oral surgery, NHS England Referral to Treatment figures, April 2024 to August 2026.

18-week performance deteriorated

Published 18-week performance for Oral surgery at this organisation has deteriorated over the past 12 months: 32.8% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 52.3% at the end of August 2025.

Share of people on the waiting list who had been waiting under 18 weeks, at the end of each month. Scale runs from 0% to 100%.
Latest · August 2026
32.8%
3 months earlier · May 2026
46.1% then · change to latest -13.3 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
41.8% then · change to latest -9 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
52.3% then · change to latest -19.4 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
37.1% then · change to latest -4.3 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202632.8%2,222
July 202635.5%1,929
June 202649.7%2,167
May 202646.1%2,211
April 202645.1%2,204
March 202648.5%2,152
February 202641.8%2,278
January 202641.2%2,577
December 202542.6%2,192
November 202548.4%2,178
October 202553.8%2,208
September 202553.4%2,197
August 202552.3%2,400
July 202547.9%2,292
June 202545.3%2,554
May 202542.5%2,668
April 202540.7%3,011
March 202537.5%2,955
February 202532.9%2,891
January 202535.1%3,064
December 202438.8%3,231
November 202438.7%3,275
October 202434.9%3,127
September 202435.5%3,232
August 202438.8%3,378
July 202438.5%3,207
June 202433.5%2,862
May 202433.5%2,817
April 202437.1%2,978
How we calculate change
  • Each month's figure is the number of people waiting under 18 weeks divided by everyone on the waiting list, from NHS England's published monthly files.
  • Changes compare the latest month with exactly 3, 6 and 12 months earlier, only where both months are published and the list has at least 50 people.
  • The 12-month label is "improved" or "deteriorated" only if the share moved by 3 percentage points or more; smaller moves are called "broadly stable".
  • Where NHS England reissued a month's file, we use the revised file. Months we do not have are left as gaps and never estimated.
  • Earlier months come from our archive of NHS England's published files and are checked against our current figures wherever both exist.

What these figures cannot tell you

  • These are whole-list figures for one specialty at one organisation. They describe the published waiting list, not how long any one person will wait.
  • This specialty covers many conditions and treatments. These figures are not specific to any one operation or condition.
  • Figures are published for the whole organisation, which may run several hospital sites. They do not show the position at any single site.
  • Patients are prioritised by clinical need, so people on the same list can wait very different times.
  • A higher share within 18 weeks is not a measure of the quality of care.

Other NHS trusts offering oral surgery within 25 miles

Published figures only. These are whole-list figures for each organisation in one month; a different organisation's published position does not mean an individual referral would move faster there.

Alternative trusts for Oral surgery
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust13.3 mi1,41244%+11.2 pp
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust13.8 mi2,36472%+39.5 pp
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust22 mi1,00862%+29.4 pp
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust22 mi6,79645%+12.3 pp

What these figures cannot tell you

  • Where you are in a queue, or when you will be seen or treated.
  • How urgent your own referral is. These are aggregate waiting-list figures and do not show the clinical priority of an individual patient.
  • Anything about a specific consultant, clinic or site within a trust.
  • What will happen next month: these are end-of-month snapshots of a past period.

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